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In a contemporary context marked by individualism and social fragmentation, Marija Bjekic is bringing to life the concepts and values ​​of community, solidarity and collective responsibility. With her exhibition at the Kolac Foundation Gallery, she offers an artistic response to the moment we live in and calls for a collective rethinking – what are we building, what are we destroying and who has the power in this process?

With her starting point in the visual heritage of post-war Yugoslavia and the aesthetics of Russian constructivism, she builds a poetic yet critical dialogue with the past. In this relationship, Marija Bjekic questions contemporary values ​​and their construction in the tension of individual and collective demands, as well as the unstable nature of the social order in a time of fluid truths and economic uncertainty.

In a series of drawings and collages, the artist relies on documentary material and artistic materials (prints, photographs, films, etc.) – through the appropriation, reproduction and recontextualization of selected templates. New constellations of such fragments of the past, the "montage" of new visual constructions, open up the possibility of new readings.